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Monday, January 3, 2011

Happy Birthday Deep Space Nine

In 1993, on this very day, Star Trek Deep Space Nine was first aired on television. It ran for seven glorious years and like many trekkies or trekkers, I hung onto every word. I didn't have cable, so for me, I had to wait until midnight, Sunday night to watch. I had to be to work 7 am on Mondays and with two children at the time, up a lot earlier, yet I never missed an episode! I remember when Jadzia and Worf were married. I remember at Jadzia's Bachelorette party when she told of Sirella, (man she was a bitch though.) And when Jadzia died, I cried. I wanted to take that big, cuddly Klingon into my arms and hug him. And when Nicole deBoer took on the role of Dax, I was prepared to hate her. Of course I ended up loving her character as much as all the others.

To this day, my husband and I love the show. We embarrass my daughter by talking as though the whole world of Trek were real. My husband is a Ferengi. Anyone that knows him will understand. Of course I am a Trill. My screen name, Jezri, is a combination of the names Jadzia and Ezri.

I miss the show and would love to see a reunion, but considering they haven't even bothered to consider a movie with the cast, that was, in my opinion, the best Trek cast in the history of the show. There were so many inside jokes between the characters that only someone who followed the show would understand. For instance, when Kira was pregnant with the O’Brian’s baby and was having her Bajoran sneezing fits, she told Julian it was his fault she was even pregnant. Startled, he asked how and she said because he was the one that talked her into carrying the baby. However, in real life, Nana Visitor, (Kira) was pregnant and Alexander Siddig, (Julian) was the father. I almost choked, laughing at the joke.

Deep Space Nine was a wonderful example of humanity, even in the characters that were not human. One of my most memorable scenes was between Kira and Damar, in which Damar found out his family, had been killed by the Dominion. "What kind of people kill innocent women and children?" he had asked. Kira looked at him and said, "You tell me." Of course Damar realized and probably for the first time, what exactly his people had done to the Bajoran's. It was like a double whammy.